St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-22
THUMBS TOO THICK.
Three or Four Members of the St. Paul
Team Play Ball Like School
Boys,
And the Wolverines Have no Trouble in
Winning the Second Game of
the Series
The Chicago and Des Moines Teams
Play Four Innings and Quit
Because of Rain.
Warren to Meet Phalen Tonight
The Coming Mill Between
Glow and Fahey.

The GLOBE might say the st. Paul team
gave miserable exhibition of bail playing
yesterday, to the intense disgust of every
one of the 1000 people present, but it will
not do it. Several of the team played quite
as badly as it is possible to play. but there
was good work done by others which
should be recognized. For instance, Muir
phy won encomiums at every turn. His
fielding was extraordinarily brilliant, and
his batting satisfactorily heavy. the game
being opened with his three-bagger along
the right-feld foul line. Prescott did what
he had to do we'll, and Sowders' pitching.
though not up to his usual standard, was
fair. Only Brouthers and Thompson hit for
more than one base. The second-base play
of Mccarthy was also much better than on
Tuesday Cleveland and Pickett did neither
very we'll nor very poorly. Each secured a
hit and each is charged with an error.
Crooks was in the short stops position.
but he evidently had large surplus of
thumbs in stock. He redeemed himself
somewhat in the eighth inning by landing
center field. Wilmot was as much
the teams Jonah on Thursday as
its hero on Tuesday. He started his error
score in the third inning by muffing Brouth-
ers' fly, and moment later made wild
throw. In the seventh inning, after two
men were out, he dropped another fly from
Brouthers' bat, and five men scored before
another man was retired. He needs to
practice catching high flies. He is a brilliant
ball player in all things save one-catchng
the sky scraperS. Webber - - -
- The Detroit men fielded beautifully
throughout their splendid work being often
applauded.
THE GAME
was opened at $40, as it had begun to rain
and the impression was general that it
would be a damp afternoon. st. Paul
went to bat, with Murphy the first man at
the plate. Weidman's delivery suited him
and he landed the ball over by the black
board near the right-tield foul line for three
bases. He was put out from first to catcher
in trying to steal home on dropped third
strike, futile attempt having been made
by Briody to catch Cleveland at first. For
Detroit Richardson hit the ball along the
left foul line twenty feet and made first,
going to second on Webber's low throw and
home On Brouthers' center-ield hit. De-
trOit scored twice more in the
second on bases on balls to
White and Hanlon, a wild pitch
and bad tumble at short. st. Paul
crossed the plate twice in the third on Web
ber's base on balls, Wilmot's hit to right,
and Clevelands hit to left. In the same
inning Detroit got two on errors at left and
hits by Thompson and White. In the fifth
st. Paul evened up the score by getting
three runs on McCarthy's hit to left. Web
ber's base on balls. Pickett's hit to left and
Richardson's bad ovaithrow to third. In
the sixth Detroit made, five runs on bases
on balls to Briody, Rowe and Thompson.
WiImot's mutf, and Dunlap and Whites
hits. The visitors made the last run of the
game in the seventh on Hanlon's hit, sac
| rifice and two passed balls. The prettiest
play of the day was made in the eighth in
ming. Brouthers led off by getting his base
| Oil balls, and went to third on Thompson
double to right field. Dunlap hit a grounder
to Sowders, who caught Brouthers at the
plate. Webber threw the ball to Cleveland
and he and Crooks ran Thompson down be-
tween the bases. Dunlap had gone to
second and took third on wild pitch. He
tried to steal home on a throw from Web
Der, Sowders failing TO stop the ball.
Crooks. however, sent it to the plate in
time to catch the runner. The game was
lost through st. Pauls poor fielding, as the
Detrots did not earn run and made no
more than two hits in any inning. The score
is as follows: